ReviewEcology and evolution2021
Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry.
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- Nutrient Balancing by a Wild Browsing Herbivore: Nutritional Geometry of Snowshoe Hares (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The evolutionary path of the epithelial sodium channel δ-subunit in Cetartiodactyla points to a role in sodium sensing.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Locus Ceruleus Dynamics Are Suppressed during Licking and Enhanced Postlicking Independent of Taste Novelty.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Hummingbird ingestion of low-concentration ethanol within artificial nectar.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Endocannabinoid administration affects taste preference and the expression of cannabinoid and opioid receptors in the amygdala of early lactating cows.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Rapid evolution of diet choice in an introduced population of Trinidadian guppies.Biology letters · 2023Article
- In defense of elemental currencies: can ecological stoichiometry stand as a framework for terrestrial herbivore nutritional ecology?Oecologia · 2022Review
- The evolution of sour taste.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Review
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- Chemical components change along the ontogeny of a bat fruit (Neolamarckia cadamba) with ripening asynchrony in favour of its fruit selection and seed dispersal.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
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Abstract
A major conceptual gap in taste biology is the lack of a general framework for understanding the evolution of different taste modalities among animal species. We turn to two complementary nutritional frameworks, biological stoichiometry theory and nutritional geometry, to develop hypotheses for the evolution of different taste modalities in animals. We describe how the attractive tastes of Na-, Ca-, P-, N-, and C-containing compounds are consistent with principles of both frameworks based on their shared focus on nutritional imbalances and consumer homeostasis. Specifically, we suggest that the evolution of multiple nutritive taste modalities can be predicted by identifying individual elements that are typically more concentrated in the tissues of animals than plants. Additionally, we discuss how consumer homeostasis can inform our understanding of why some taste compounds (i.e., Na, Ca, and P salts) can be either attractive or aversive depending on concentration. We also discuss how these complementary frameworks can help to explain the evolutionary history of different taste modalities and improve our understanding of the mechanisms that lead to loss of taste capabilities in some animal lineages. The ideas presented here will stimulate research that bridges the fields of evolutionary biology, sensory biology, and ecology.
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